# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1342
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CONVENTION MINUTES -879

(Committee 2, T.B., p.11, Memorial 415)

q Committee 2 presented the resolutions which grew out of
fa realization of the tremendous opportunities for work in the
| Kingdom, so great as to require the united efforts of clergy and
: laity. After amending Resolution C by substituting the words “the
4 secretaries of these departments initiate the program” for the words
; in T.B., p.11, line 32, “in,” to line 35, “program,” and after substi-
r tuting the word “funds” for “necessary expenditures” on p. 12, line 1,
Synod called upon the congregations to use their existing agencies
t to train the laity to discharge its priestly functions and authorized
; the secretaries of the departments of Parish Education, Home
Missions, and Stewardship to initiate a program of institutes and
f short-term schools to aid congregations in carrying out this pro-

gram. The existing facilities found in various sections of Synod
" should be utilized as well as the service of auxiliary organizations.
_ The Board of Directors was empowered to provide the necessary
funds for the program. Synod also expressed its joy because in-
creasing numbers of lay people are manifesting an interest in
serving the Church on a full-time basis and declared its readiness
to give them guidance and use them whenever possible. (Reso-
lution 3.)

' Realizing that it would be desirable to co-ordinate the efforts.
of the various agencies in our Church which publish tracts and to
initiate a unified tract production and distribution system, Synod
instructed its Praesidium to appoint a committee to study the matter
of tract distribution at cost. Upon approval of the Praesidium and
of the Board of Directors such a program is to be initiated. Over-
ture 413 dealing with the establishment of a mailing mission was
referred to this committee for action ‘subject to the approval of
the Praesidium and the Board of Directors. (Resolution 20.)

After Dr. Salvner had presented greetings from the deaf people
_ served by our missionaries and had given an overview of the work
among the deaf, Synod by resolution gratefully acknowledged the

7 blessings experienced in this work and requested our congrega-
+ tions to consider the spiritual welfare of the deaf in their com-

munities their own responsibility. The Board for Work Among
the Deaf and its workers are to continue to work for closer contact
with the Districts in which the deaf congregations are located.
(Memorials 409—411, Resolution 6.) ;

Greetings were received from Prof. Martin Graebner, the
Valparaiso . University Guild, the Board of Directors of the
Ev. Lutheran Church of. Nigeria, Africa, and from the General
Conference of India Mission assembled in its 27th general session.
The President closed the morning session with the votum.